Food For Thought

The War Against Our Natural Right Of Self-Defense Continues

Proponents
of the Nanny State have been trying to take away
man's Natural right of self-defense ever since the United Nations was created
back in 1945. Of course, the Natural right of self-defense is totally unknown
in communist and socialist countries; and big-government toadies in several
so-called "democratic" countries have also succeeded in turning citizens into
subjects by removing or severely restricting the Natural right of self-defense.
Obviously, I'm talking about countries such as Great
Britain, France,
Germany, New Zealand, Australia,
and Canada.

By
self-defense, I am talking about a man's right to carry a Personal Defense
Weapon (PDW)--which, in modern times, mostly requires a firearm--anywhere and
everywhere he goes. A state that does not allow a man to be personally armed
in his day-to-day activities is literally stripping him of his right of
self-defense. To require a citizen
to keep his or her PDW in their home or vehicle is to deny the citizen's
Natural right of self-defense. To
say a citizen may lawfully protect himself in only limited and
duly-prescribed locations is to make the citizen a subject of the state.
Furthermore, it removes from him the most fundamental of all the Natural
rights that were granted to him by his Creator: the right of self-defense.

Four-legged
predators are constantly on the prowl for animals that are defenseless. Two-legged predators do the same thing. These human predators do not respect "gun-free"
zones. Like all predators, they are opportunistic beasts. They prey on the weak and vulnerable. When the
state takes away a person's right to be always armed, it makes the entire
citizenry weak and vulnerable. As I have said many times, guns don't kill
people; gun-free zones kill people.

Gun
control laws are among the most egregious violations of Natural Law. Men and
women who are truly free are allowed to carry a PDW everywhere they go.
Banks, schools, government buildings, churches, etc., should be no
exceptions. It is no coincidence that just about every single mass-shooting
in recent memory has taken place in a so-called "gun-free" zone, where the
only people who were armed were the perpetrators. Gun-free zones turn free
men into human prey.

For all
intents and purposes, several states and major cities within the United States
have become "gun-free" zones, in that they mostly deny their citizens the
right to carry a PDW on their person. Whether the people of these cities and
states realize it or not, they have lost the right to be called free men and
have been turned into human prey by their own State and municipal
governments. There is no greater
example of this tyranny than the city of Chicago,
Illinois.

Chicago
has some of the strictest and most stringent gun-control laws in the entire
nation. The government of Chicago
has, in effect, turned the town into a giant killing-field where ravenous
two-legged beasts are allowed to feast on the millions of defenseless prey
that inhabit our country's third largest city. For example, over the past
Independence Day weekend, 82 people were shot and 14 people were killed in Chicago violence.
Breitbart.com covered the story:

"Breitbart
reported that the violence was high on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning,
but when Thursday, the final hours
of Sunday, and the first few hours of Monday morning were added to the
accounting, the rate of violence proved to be even more appalling.

"On
Monday morning, July 7, the Chicago Tribune
shocked the city with the list of weekend violence reporting that between Thursday, as the holiday weekend began, to the
early hours of Monday morning, Chicago
experienced 82 shootings with 14 killed."

Included
in the Breitbart report is the fact that one man's life was actually saved by
virtue of the fact that he had a concealed carry permit (no small feat in the
City of Chicago)
and used his PDW to protect himself against three violent miscreants. In this
case, one of the dead was a violent predator. Had the innocent citizen not
been armed, he would have been the statistic. In addition, the report states
that eight of the dead were at the hands of Chicago police officers in the line of
duty, proving, once again, that policemen carry guns, not for the protection
of the citizenry, but for their own protection.

Predictably,
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel blamed the increased violence on "weak" gun laws
in the neighboring states of Indiana and Wisconsin.

Of
course, what Emanuel won't tell you is that the violent crime rates of those
states where the right to keep AND BEAR arms is less infringed are far
less--far less! For example, there are 11 states in the country that allow
their citizens to carry firearms freely and openly with no permit or license
required. Those states are Alaska,
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont,
Kentucky, and Virginia. So, using Emanuel's logic, one could expect that
there should have been hundreds of shootings in those states last
weekend--what with their "weak" gun laws and all, right? You know that's not
true.

Check
the incidents of shootings in the above-listed states and we might even
discover that the City of Chicago
may have had more shootings over this past Independence Day weekend than
those 11 states COMBINED. Think of
it: the City of Chicago
(with some of the strictest gun control laws in the country) may have had
more shootings than the combined shootings of the 11 states that recognize
their citizens' Natural right of self-defense by allowing them to freely and
openly carry a PDW.

Of
course, it's not only various and sundry governments (though they are the
most egregious usurpers of the Natural right of self-defense) that want to
deny people the right to bear arms; many large retailers are adding their
weight to the anti-self-defense hysteria.

Just a
few days ago, the giant retailer, Target,
announced a corporate policy that asks its patrons to leave their firearms at
home. Once again, Breitbart.com covers the story.

"The department store chain did this via an
announcement posted on its website and shared by interim CEO John Mulligan.

"The announcement says:

"'As
you've likely seen in the media, there's been a debate about whether guests
in communities that permit "open carry" should be allowed to bring
firearms into Target stores. Our
approach has always been to follow local laws, and of course, we will continue
to do so. But starting today we will respectfully request that guests not
bring firearms to Target--even in
communities where it is permitted by law.'

"By
taking this step, Target joins
Chipotle, Jack in the Box, Sonic, and Chili's in asking law-abiding citizens
not to carry guns in their businesses."

The author of the
report, AWR Hawkins, notes, "Within two weeks of asking law-abiding customers
to come unarmed, two Jack in the Box stores were robbed, and a shooting took
place at a third. Patrons were robbed at gunpoint in one of the robberies, as
well."

But the
war against your Natural right to self-defense doesn't stop with the City of Chicago or the Target chain-stores. The
mainstream media seem absolutely determined to take away your right to defend
yourself and your loved ones.

After
CNN sacked Piers Morgan due to his immense unpopularity, which was mostly due
to his arrogant attacks against America's
Second Amendment, the cable network recently announced that it was replacing
Morgan with former America's
Most Wanted host, John Walsh, who immediately proclaimed that his show would
continue Morgan's attacks against the Second Amendment.

Once
more, Breitbart.com covers the story:

"Former
America's
Most Wanted host John Walsh is hosting a new show on CNN on which he vows to
keep the push for gun control and the war on the NRA alive.

"According
to The Wrap, Walsh said:

"'I'm
the father of a murdered child. I've done nothing but track violence in America since
my son was murdered. We have a serious problem with guns in this country...
and the NRA solution to arm every grammar-school 80-year-old teacher with a
gun is absolutely ludicrous.'

"He
claims the NRA has gotten so big and financially powerful through
relationships with gun manufacturers that 'they're not a lobbyist on Capitol
Hill, they're a gun manufacturer rep.'

"Walsh's
new show, The Hunt, premieres July
13. Walsh says he did not initially realize 'how much his gun control efforts
would be a part of his new show.'"

Obviously,
CNN is hoping that it's continued anti-Second Amendment agenda will be more
palatable to the American people if it comes from a fellow
American--especially one with whom everyone can truly sympathize with by
virtue of his losing a child to an act of violence (although Adam Walsh's
murder did not involve the use of a firearm)--than from the arrogant and
pompous British elitist, Piers Morgan. But make no mistake about it: the
anti-Second Amendment message is the same. Only the messenger has changed.

And
most sadly, churches, too, are often at the forefront of the
anti-self-defense fanaticism. Christian leaders from denominations across the
board are often the ones who promote gun control (even gun confiscation)
among their congregations and who deny their parishioners the right to be
armed on church property.

For
example, back in 2004, the president of the LDS church issued a declaration
to all Mormon churches in Utah that gave
"public notice that firearms are prohibited in the church's houses of
worship, including temples, meetinghouses, the Assembly Hall, the Salt Lake Tabernacle, and the Conference Center."

The declaration went
on to say, "Once such public notice is given, persons who bring firearms into
a church house of worship should be informed of the church's position and
politely asked to take their firearms to another safe location. Persons who
refuse to take their firearms from the house of worship or repeatedly ignore
the church's prohibition should be referred to local law enforcement officers
for possible criminal prosecution."

But if
you think the LDS church is the only church in the country that has taken such
a position, you are sadly misinformed. My educated guess is that the vast
majority of denominations and churches in America have a very similar
position.

But
instead of denying the Christian people of America from exercising their
God-given right of self-defense on church property, church leaders should be
boldly teaching the Biblical Natural Law principles of self-defense and
encouraging their people to jealously guard this most fundamental liberty. By
demanding that Christian people not be armed on church property, church
leaders are no better than Rahm Emanuel--who insists that Chicago's residents
not be allowed to protect themselves--and are opening up their churches to
those two-legged wolves who would seek to devour the sheep.

There are only a
small handful of countries today that recognize the Natural right of
self-defense. The advent of the
United Nations has facilitated the demise of this right in country after
country. The United States
is the last major power that yet somewhat protects this most precious Natural
right.

Obviously,
several State and local governments within the United
States (not to mention the worst offender of all: the
federal government in Washington,
D.C.) have themselves assisted
the dismantlement of the right of self-defense. Several giant retailers are
assisting the attacks against our Natural right of self-defense. The mainstream media is incessant in its attacks
against the Second Amendment. And even many of America's churches have set
themselves against the right to BEAR arms. The
war against our Natural right of self-defense continues.

However,
I need to point out that the architects of the Nanny State
have been trying to disarm the American people since even before the United
Nations was created. And while the right to keep and bear arms has been
severely restricted by myriads of federal, State, and local laws, the
American people continue to be the most heavily armed people in the world.
Not only is the American citizenry an armed citizenry, it is an absolutely
determined citizenry. The message
to any and all potential tyrants who would attempt to remove our Natural
right of self-defense is the same--whether they are from King George's London, Mao's Beijing,
Stalin's Moscow, Emanuel's Chicago,
Obama's Washington, D.C.,
or the U.N.'s New York City:
MOLON LABE, COME AND TAKE THEM!

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